We all know the power of good stories and we humans seem wired to build our lives around them. Throughout our history, our species has relied on oral tradition to share information, pass down knowledge and teach morality through myths and legends.

And every day each of us is writing our own stories. Our brains like to weave narratives out of daily events and fit them into a bigger storyline, in an attempt to make sense of life.

The trouble is, we also like stories to be tidy, for protagonists to solve their problems, for endings to offer a sense of closure. But the variability of real life means that many things remain unresolved. See full transcript here.

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